(A/N: Sorry....Im English.... there crisps over hear. Sorry everyone, I stand corrected, Its potato chips. Thank you for that, I didn't actually know what to call them:)......Okay, okay, enough blabing, I know. On with the story....)

Chapter three: Payback

Rogue woke up the next morning, to a nock at the door. Everyone els had gone to school, and the mansion was deadly silent, makeing the knock sound hollow. She roled over and groaned into her pillow, trying to egnore the sound, untill the door swong open, revieling Logan leaning against the frame.

"Go away!" She growled as Logan laghed.

"Come on, get up. Weve got stuff to do."

"Lihke what!" She wined.

"Like, makeing you pay for keepin me hear babysitting ya."He looked over to her open balconey door. "Since when do ya leave yer door open at night.?"

Rogue picked up her pillow and threw it at Logan, who didn't even move as the pillow flew straight passed his highley amused face. She just growled and walked into her closet, closeing the door behind her. Logan laghed and walked away.

Rogue got dressed, then she walked down the stairs, tieing her hair back. She walked into the kitchen and got a glass of milk, and drank it as she walked around looking for Logan. 'Wait! Ah didn't leave that door open last night....ah closed it...' She thought remembering specifically closeing the doors herself, and realiseing what Logan had said to her. Rogue couldn't find Logan, so she went back up to her room and picked up the diary from the file under her pillow. She crossed her legs up on her bed, and began to read in her head why'll chomping on some grapes.

(1st entry)

About a week ago, I was walking out of my house, the one I got out of my devorce from Benjemin. The onley good thing that ever came out of that marrage. I just thought it was a normal day in my hometown, but no. The days never normal for me. I wen't to the bank to get some money for groserys, when someone decided to hold it up, and kill the manager. I was his next target, well I would have been if that man hadn't come and saved my life, when he had no reason to. I didn't get a good look at him, I was too buisey cowering away...how lame is that, I just cringed though, I was terrafied. Anyway, word spread across town, and I started being stopped in the street by strangers asking me if I was the one who was saved by the mutant. Yes, a mutant saved my life, if onley I could find him to thank him. He has no idea how much he's changed they way I feel about life, though nothing can change what I did. How easily it was for my foster parents to make me give her up.

'Give who up?' Rogue thought as she flipped the pages.

(14th entry)

Its been two weeks since my encounter at the bank, and again im slipping. Depressions takeing over. Im 17 and im being devorced , not that the marrage was even legal, and Im glad that me and Ben split after Teren was given away. I onley got married because my foster mother made me, to hide the shame of what happend, of what Benjamine did to me. How could they make me marry him after that! I can't even bring myself to write it. Ive been told that Im going to hell for what happend, but they don't even know what happend, they don't know the full story. God wouldn't do that to me. Would he? It wasn't my fault, they made me marry Ben, and wouldn't let me have an abortion, they made me give her away after marrying that discusting man! And Ill never forgive them for it. NEVER! I dont think Ill be adding anymore enteries, I don't think Ill be hear to do so. I can't stand the guilt, the pain I feel inside haveing to live with this secret knowing that my daughter will grow up with another family, and never know anything about me, and Its all thair failt! So, for whoever reads this, My daughter, Teren Connor, I gave her away when I was 16, after being forced to marry her father to cover it up, but even that wasn't good enough. They had to distroy the one thing I wanted! I guess they were right, I will be going to hell after all.

'Holey shit! she was sewicidal! And a religious nut!....... And..... she had another kid?'

Rogue scanned trough the pages, noticeing more afterwards. She fliped to the next page.

(15th entry)

I know what I wrote yesterday was stupid, but I don't know what came over me. I was stood at the bridge, looking down at the water, I was so high up and all I wanted to do was jump from there, to end the pain. Id gotten as far as, climbing up over the railing....when someone started talking to me. A voice that was so...... secure? He reached for my hand, and I took his, recogniseing him immediateley. It was the mutant who saved me at the bank. And he saved me again on that ledge, this morning. Then he hung around with me all day, I think he was just trying to make sure I didn't try to jump again. Why els would he wan't to hang around with me. He didn't talk much, I did all of that. I can't believe I just poured out my life story to him, he didn't complain or anything. He got my attention from the water by asking my name, and I told him, and immediateley ast him about being a mutant, he didn't mind it though. I felt so safe around him. I never thought I'd trust anither person, let alone a man, after what Ben did to me. I spen't all day with this guy, not even knowing his name, and at the end of the day, he drove me home on his moterbike, and I realised that I had no idea what his name was, and I was so embaressed when I ast him, he told me his name was-------

Rogue stopped reading as Storm walked into her room smiling.

"Arn't you coming to the danger room? Logan said you'd be joining us today."

"Yea? figures." Rogue closed the book and tucked it away as she followed Storm down to the danger room.

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Rogue suited up and stepped inside, glairing at Logan who began to smirk 'Ha! Payback!' he thought, Rogue just folded her arms and waited for the simulations to start.

She fought alongside the rest of the instructors for an houre, and still they were going on. Rogue was impressing everyone, with fancey moves and hits against the simulations. She took out half of the brother hood, and sabertooth aswell as mystique, that one being extremeley violent that it worried Ororo..... but then Gambit was her next aponent. Rogue looked at him, noticeing how real he looked. She stepped away when she saw it, and grabbed her water as Storm and Beast looked on confused.

"Rogue? What are you doing?" Hank said.

"Ahm takein a break, ahm tired."

The simulation ended and Rogue grabbed her towl and walked out leaveing everyone but Logan confused. He wen't out after her and followed her down the hall.

"Still thinkin about him huh?"

"No ah aint! Ahv'e not even thought about that swamp rat once." Rogue snapped at him as she rubbed the towl over her neck. "It's just weerd havein' ta fight 'him' with so much of him in mah head."

"What do ya mean?"

"Ah mean, when he k.......*She saw Logans eyebrow tweek, and realised what she was about to say.*........when ah touched him at Magnetoes base......ah took so much of his energy that, he's just so loud in mah head.....He never shuts the hell up."

Logan laghed at the coment and then walked off as Rogue stalked up to her room, where she skanned through the whole of the diary, but didn't actually read it, picking up small bits of information, like where abouts in mississippi Stephaney lived, and more about the mystory man, who Rogue didn't even think to look up the name.

She found out, that Stephaney was raped by a family friend. Benjamin. Stephaney's foster pairents found out that she was pregnant when she was around 15, and forced her to marry Benjamine, believing his tale of events over hers. Stephaney refused to live with Benjamine, so her foster mother made her give up her child and devorce Benjimine. The marrage lasted a few weeks of tourcher to Stephaney before she made them listen, and they took her first child away from her. Then when she was 17, she met the mystory man, who she kept seeing, and within months, they were in a secret relationship.

The diary spread over 3 years, and ended when she said that the man she had been seeing, since that day on the bridge left, because she told him to after a riot against mutants started out, it had no details, makeing Rogue think that there was more to the story. Who ever this man was, Stephaney was "In love with him, but she had to let him leave to save his, and her own life.", which were Stephaneys words. And who ever this man was, he was also Rogues father. She didn't look for the name in the book, because she figured that it wasnt in there, since Stephaney said she hid things abaout her 3 year relationship with the man, inside words that onley she knew the meaning of, because her foster parents read threw her diary.